The Mideast Crack-Up
Robert Worth, David Goldman, Edward Luttwak, Amos Harel, Nathan Thrall, and Lee Smith on the new Arab map
The Napkin Artist
Remembering Yiddishist, linguistics scholar, Holocaust survivor, and painter Edward Stankiewicz, who died this year
Jewish Centurions vs. Rome
Street performers who pose for tourists by the Colosseum battle city authorities
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Sundown: China Urges North Korea to the Table
5:12 PM —Plus Israeli electric car manufacturer runs of
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The Shared Wisdom of Memorial Day
3:02 PM —A rabbi and a serviceman meet while helping homeless vets
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John Kerry’s Polarizing Turkey Shawarma
1:45 PM —The world cries ‘fowl’ about his culinarily curious choice of grub
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Glenn Greenwald Terrorizes Logic
11:18 AM —On the Guardian columnist’s response to the terror attack in London
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Daybreak: Hezbollah Sustains Losses in Syria
9:07 AM —Plus drones, bacon, Billy Joel, and the Church of Scotland
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Sundown: The Obama Push for Peace Continues
6:23 PM —Israel takes another small step toward Haredi conscription
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Hannah Arendt, Guilty Pleasure
By J. Hoberman — Thrill to the Jewish Philosopher Queen as she does battle with boring Nazis, The New Yorker, and MossadA Growing Fear in France
By Clémence Boulouque — As political and financial crises deepen in Western Europe, French Jewry is facing a familiar testJohn Kerry’s Silly Play
By Lee Smith — The secretary of state prattles about imaginary treaties while the Arab world is engulfed by a Sunni-Shia civil warHappy Birthday, Mr. Kissinger
By Gil Troy — The influential former secretary of state—courtier, careerist, proud American, conflicted Jew—turns 90Dumb and Dumber
By David P. Goldman — How neocons and Obama liberals have created catastrophe by consensus in the Middle East
Religious Labor
The Mideast Crack-Up
Our Arrested Development
New York Rabbi’s Awful Award
Glenn Greenwald Terrorizes Logic
Go Superfreak!
Hating Gwyneth Paltrow
When Berlin Meant Business
Looking for Rabbi Versed in Dark Talmudic Arts
Ed Koch’s Catholic Send-off
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When Berlin Meant Business
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
In Praise of Dairy Restaurants
A visit to B&H Restaurant on Second Avenue brings back memories of milchig establishments of yore
Curse of the Survivor
Singer Vera Gran was haunted by allegations of Nazi collaboration. A new book asks if survival made her guilty.


